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Art should never be popular.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Dublin city
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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.
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The only sin is stupidity.
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Be yourself, because others are already taken.
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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
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